This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kIZ.2ACEB/345.346.376.377.379.389 Message Board Post: Hi, Rush. I am just getting around to commenting on your message of a year ago. 1) Mary Elizabeth (Goad) Cock. Why Mary ? I have never heard of any document in which she was any other than plain "Elizabeth". I think I know the genesis of that "Mary" business but it is all a fable. 2) Tempers. I think almost everyone has a temper if sufficiently provoked. However, the people who inhabited the "hollows" in early Appalachia seemed to have more than their fair share, probably because of their isolation and way of life. I could cite several cases from the past fifty years in my own Goad family, some humorous, some not a bit funny. 3) Buncombe. The Goad tradition is that old Robert Goad, one of the two Graysom/Carroll settlers, lived for awhile in Buncombe County, N.Car. and obtained his bridge, Isabell, there. There is no proof. I know of no other Goad connection to that county. 4) Indians. I do not believe any of the early Goads had Indian connections. As the years went by, who knows who married who so far as nationality or race were concerned. People married without questioning the details of their intended's background. (did you ? Me neither). Given the disparity of numbers, very dark complexioned people were much more likely to have African-American blood, partricularly in the deep South, than Indian. Of course, that was much less likely in the hill counties where slaves were so few.The Goad-related Tobias Phillips family in Grayson/Carroll had quite a few slaves. Sorry (I guess) to be so verbose. --- Ken